If it had been a passenger seat, the passenger would not have been required to go back to her original seat for landing, would she? Therefore it was not a passenger seat, and the passenger
was on a jump seat. Are we really discussing the level of discomfort endured in order to judge just how upset the passenger must have been? Is someone going to ask if she was wearing a short skirt or makeup? Has Pprune somehow fallen through a time warp into the 1950s?
From the Nacion shared earlier:
The sources stressed that the treatment that Villena (the judge) gave to the case of Air France was "exactly the same" as in the other two events in which he had to intervene within ten days: that of a Colombian passenger on a LATAM flight ( with an Argentinian as an accused, also for masturbating with the woman) and a fitness teacher who reported being groped by another passenger on an American Airlines flight. "In those two cases, the crews made the formal complaints, on both flights, a flight attendant sat down with the victims to accompany them, and the crews made themselves available." Neither LATAM nor American Airlines complained or made any presentation against the procedure, "the spokesmen explained.
Whatever the AF crew thought of the situation, this is closer to how they should have handled it.
Reports in papers have described the suspected ****** as being 'tall and corpulent'. In other words, a big guy. The cabin crew were faced with having to choose between confronting a big guy or pushing back against a standard-sized woman. I note that most the videos I've seen in recent months of people being dragged off planes by security have involved women or smallish men. Presumably, powerfully built men just behave better on planes.